NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. June 2023 ENGLISH (Shift-II)

Total Questions: 100

11. Match List I with List II

   List-I    List-II
 A. Peter Middleton 1. New Relations : The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994
 B. Patricia Waugh 2. Distant Reading : Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
 C. David Kennedy 3. Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry : The Language of Gender and Objects
 D. Edward Larrissy 4. The Harvest of the Sixties : English Literature and Its Background 1960-1990

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Codes:

 A B C D A B C D
 (a) 3 4 2 1 (b) 4 3 1 2
 (c) 2 4 1 3 (d) 3 1 2 4
Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:

The appropriate match of the writers to the given works is A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3.

   List-I    List-II
 A. Peter Middleton 2. Distant Reading : Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
 B. Patricia Waugh 4. The Harvest of the Sixties : English Literature and Its Background 1960-1990
 C. David Kennedy 1. New Relations : The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994
 D. Edward Larrissy 3. Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry : The Language of Gender and Objects

12. Which of these did Macaulay's 1835 Minutes on Indian Education want to create?

Correct Answer: (b) A class of people Indian by blood but English by taste
Solution:• Macaulay's 1835 Minutes on Indian Education wanted to create a class of people Indian by blood but English by taste.
• The Macaulay's Minute on Education was propounded by Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1835. Macaulay stressed the need for a system of education that was based on modern western values and methods, rather than the traditional Indian systems.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

13. Which of these are plays written by Bertolt Brecht?

A. The Caucasian Chalk Circle
B. Galileo
C. Copernicus
D. Archimedes
E. Man Equals Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A, B and E
Solution:

• The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948) the plays Life of Galileo (Galileo) (1943), Man Equals Man A Manis a Man (1976) are plays by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht.
• Copernicus and Archimedes are not written by Bartolt Brecht.
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle is abrupt a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than the baby's wealthy biological parents.
• "Man Equals Man" explores themes of war, human fungibility, and identity.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

14. Name the playwright who has written Gallathea?

Correct Answer: (d) John Lyly
Solution:

• "Gallathea" or 'Galatea' is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly. The first record of the play's performance was at Greenwich palace on New Year's Day, 1588 where it was performed before queen Elizabeth I and her court by the children of St. Paul's, a troupe of boy actors.
Hence, the correct answer's option (d).

15. Which of the following are true in the context of Jonathan Swift?

A. He was born in Dublin and studied at Kilkenny Grammar. School and Trinity College, Dublin
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C. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1695
D. He was a member of Kit-Cat Club
E. He wrote the sensational novel Lady Audley's Secret
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) A and C
Solution:

• Of the given statements, only (A) and (c) are true in the context of Jonathan Swift.
• Jonathan Swift (pseudonym-Isaac Bickerstaff) was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language.
• He was a student at Dublin's Trinity college during the anti-Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England. Earlier he had also studied in Kilkenny Grammar School, Dublin.
• He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1695.
• His renowned works are : "A Modest Proposal", "A Tale of a Tub", "Argument Against Abolishing Christianity", "Gulliver's Travels" etc.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

16. Who is the writer of "The Flies", an adaptation of the Electra myth?

Correct Answer: (a) Jean-Paul Sartre
Solution:

• "The Files" (French : Les Mouches) is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, produced in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides.
• The play recounts the stroy of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

17. Who among the following acknowledged that poetry is formed from the same elements as prose; the difference lies in the different combination of these elements and the difference of purpose?

Correct Answer: (b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Solution:

Coleridge acknowledges that poetry is formed from the same elements as prose; the difference lies in the different combination of these elements and the difference of purpose in his Biographia Literaria.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

18. From which poem are the following lines extracted?

"Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in their own defense"

Correct Answer: (c) An Essay on Criticism
Solution:

The lines "Some are bewildered ------------- their own defense" are excerpts from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism", published in 1711, Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism" is a series of finely wrought epigrams on the art of writing and one of the most quoted poems in English.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

19. Which of the following books were published in the year 1791?

A. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
B. James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
C. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
D. Burke['s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
E. Paine's The Rights of Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (b) B and E
Solution:

Publication years of the books are :
(A) Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"-1776
(B) James Boswell's "The Life of Samuel Johnson"- 1791
(D) Bruke's "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents"-1770
(C) Johnson's "Dictionary of the English Language"- 1755
(E) Thomas Pain's or Paine's "Rights of Man"-1791 So, books mentioned in
(B) and (E) are published in 1791.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

20. Which two plays of Anton Chekhov made creative use of Shakespeare's Hamlet?

A. A Marriage Proposal
B. Three Sisters
C. The Cherry Orchard
D. Uncle Vanya
E. The Seagull
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) B and E
Solution:

"Three Sisters" (1900-01) and "The Seagull" (1895-96) of Anton Chekhov made creative use of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Hence, option (d) (B&E) is correct option.